Going up: The Ducks, who have now won six in a row after their 5-2 victory in Detroit. Going down: The Red Wings, who are 0-4-2 in their last six. (AP)

The Canucks' winning streak ends at seven, as they lose in a shootout at Minnesota. And Torts, that old softie, announces that "[we've] got to try different people" in the shootout "because we stink at it." (AP)

And to make it extra clear that this was a message to the Russians, the U.S. is sending no high-ranking government officials . . . in comparison to Vice-President Joe Biden attending the Vancouver Games in 2010, and First Lady Michelle Obama going to London in 2012. (Yahoo! Sports)

RGII's Little League-parent persona -- which Bleacher Report's Jason Cole reports has "made this season more difficult" in Washington -- now extends to trying to get Daniel Snyder to hire one of RGIII's college coaches, Art Briles. (CSN Washington)